442: The Face Everything Technique: Why Avoiding Difficulties Doesn't Work by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits
Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement
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🗓️ 25 February 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:50.4 | This is optimal living daily episode 442 to face everything technique, why avoiding |
| 0:56.0 | difficulties doesn't work. By Leo Babata of Zenhabits.net, and I'm Justin Mollick, the |
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| 1:25.9 | The face everything technique, why avoiding difficulties doesn't work by Leo Babata of Zenhabits.net. |
| 1:33.0 | We are all of us amazing at avoiding things. Our minds are less thinking machines than |
| 1:38.6 | they are avoiding machines. And the incredible thing is that we aren't even usually aware |
| 1:42.8 | that we're avoiding thinking about something. I'll give you a few examples. Right now, |
| 1:47.5 | we are hearing this article, but probably avoiding the difficult thing you don't want |
| 1:50.6 | to think about. We are constantly checking messages, news, feeds, notifications to avoid |
| 1:56.2 | doing something we don't want to face. When we're facing difficulties in life, we try |
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